Sorry for being gone for so long, but I have a good reason..

... I got an early birthday gift, a Kitchen Aid mixer, and I have baked, and baked and then baked some more. Perfect timing since it is Marlee's birthday party tomorrow. While I have been busy baking Alex has been very very busy doing radio interview after radio interview about his book. He had six or seven interviews the other day and it is really exiting! He was even in a TV show the other day and there might be another one! The book is out now and can be bought in most major places.

This is my new best friend in action :-)

Banana bread (not necessary to use a mixer but more fun :-)

Swedish Cinnamon buns

Marlee is making Cinnamon buns for his birthday party

Ended up looking a little funny, but I hope that they will taste good!

To be meringue cake for the party

While I have been baking we finally got Marlee's car track to work!!! The boys love it (including Alex!)!

A few days ago a rocket left Cape Canaveral and we saw the smoke from it. We had probably seen more if we had known about it but it was exiting to at least see some of it!! We need to make sure that we are better updated next time.

Me and Gabriel had a scary moment today. While Marlee and Noah went to the library and the park with farmor me and Gabriel was outside for a bit. I have put him on a towel on the grass several times lately and he has been fine. Not sure I will do that for a while now... When I picked him up I realized that he had ticks everywhere!!! Baby ones, tiny tiny! First I did not really know what I should do, give him a bath, strip him naked or just try to take them off. I started to take them off but finally gave up and took off all his clothes, including diaper. I went inside and took off my own clothes and they are now all lying outside waiting to go in the laundry machine. It feels like they are everywhere on me now but Gabriel seems to be clean. He had several in his hair, in his diaper and all over his clothes. I am not particularly scared of ticks but this was grouse!

This is taken hours after I took this off Gabriel but they seem to like his clothes.

The small black dots are the baby ticks.

Nice Mohawk after a bath

Gabriel in the grass a few days ago and he did not have a single tick...

 

My TOOTH!!!

Here is a pretty exiting coincident: There are some celebrity Swedes who are biking from coast to coast across the US, to raise money for special needs kids, and they will finish in St Augustine. There are 24 legs (?) which are all sponsored by different companies etc. The last leg is sponsored by a camping and lodge rental firm at Fårö where mormor and morfar live, an island with less than 500 people.

Time to do the last baking for the party and maybe take a shower to get any possible ticks off!